Dual-Fit Imperative in Security Leadership: A Grounded Theory Investigation of CISO Role Enactment in Modern Organisations

arXiv:2609.35887 · cs.CR, cs.CY · Submitted 2026-09-27 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR, cs.CY

Submitted: 2026-09-27

Updated: 2026-09-27

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Alignment — 202× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Adaptation — 74× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Security Leadership Contingency Model — 63× in this paper
Core — 46× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Abstraction — 40× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Accountability — 30× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Grounding — 21× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Actor — 20× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Transferability — 20× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Resource Constraints — 19× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Consistency — 18× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Chief Information Security Officer — 17× in this paper
Phase Transitions — 12× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Adaptability — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Accuracy — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Benchmark — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Chief Risk Officer — 6× in this paper
Selection Bias — 6× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Trace — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Frustration — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Adversarial Context — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Federated Learning — 4× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
Adaptive Mechanism — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Chief Executive Officer — 3× in this paper
Clustering — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Contextual Understanding — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Dynamic Adaptation — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Ontology — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Return on Security Investment — 3× in this paper
Adam — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Aggregation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Cross-industry Prudential Standard — 2× in this paper
Distributed Denial of Service — 2× in this paper
External Validation — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Fidelity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
General Data Protection Regulation — 2× in this paper
International Society of Automation — 2× in this paper
National Institute of Standards and Technology — 2× in this paper
Payment Card Industry — 2× in this paper
Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Abductive process — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Adversarial Attacks — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Affordance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Agent-based modeling — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Alignment Dimensions — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Artificial Intelligence (AI) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Bayesian Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
Cognitive Load — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Contextual Awareness — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Decision-Support Tool — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Homogeneity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Information Leakage — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Information Resources Management Journal — 1× in this paper
Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
Iterative Refinement — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Longitudinal Data — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Performance of the Chief Information Officer — 1× in this paper
Research Review — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
Scaffolding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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Layered Security Guidance for Data Asset Management in Additive Manufacturing

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